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The ASA Noether Awards were established in 1999 as a tribute to Gottfried Emanuel Noether, a leading scholar in nonparametric statistics with interests in research and teaching. The Noether Senior Scholar Award is given each year to a distinguished senior researcher/teacher in nonparametric statistics and the Noether Young Scholar Award…
We previously announced that Kavita Ramanan was selected for the 2021 class of Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellows, the US Department of Defense’s flagship single investigator award. In addition, Michael I. Jordan (University of California, Berkeley) was selected in the same class of eight Fellows. His research topic is, “On Intelligence…
Jim Pitman paid tribute to his long-term colleague and distinguished researcher in probability theory Michael J. Klass, UC Berkeley, on Michael’s retirement in July 2020. Michael will continue to be involved in the department as Professor Emeritus and Professor in the Graduate School. Below, Jim describes Michael’s career:
Despite having…
The American Academy of Arts & Sciences has announced the election of 252 new members, among whom is probabilist [and IMS Bulletin contributing editor!] Kavita Ramanan, Roland George Dwight Richardson University Professor of Applied Mathematics at Brown University. Ramanan has also recently been selected for the 2021 Class of Vannevar…
The National Organization of Gay and Lesbian Scientists and Technical Professionals (NOGLSTP) has selected Joseph Romano, Professor of Statistics and Economics at Stanford University, as its LGBTQ+ Scientist of the Year. An IMS Fellow, Joseph (Joe) Romano is a pre-eminent scholar in statistics and econometrics. He has published over 100…